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The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) is Australia’s premier meritorious allocation scheme, spanning both national peak facilities as well as specialised compute facilities across the nation.

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The NCMAS is administered by the NCMAS secretariat.  

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Please find below the link to the NCMAS application portal. Please refer to the official NCMAS communication about the opening and closing dates of the call. 

Further information is available at https://ncmas.nci.org.au.


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MilestoneNCMAS

Call Open

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Submissions Portalhttps://my.nci.org.au/mancini/ncmas/2024/

Committee Meetings

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Applicants Notified

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titleHow to estimate Service Units request for Setonix-GPU?

Researchers planning their migration from NVIDIA-based GPU systems like NCI’s Gadi to AMD-based Setonix-GPU should use the following example strategy to calculate their Service Units request.   

  • Simulation walltime on a single NVIDIA V100 GPU: 1h
  • Safe estimate for Service Units usage on a single Setonix’s AMD MI250X GCD: 1h * 1/2 * 128 = 64 Service Units (note: each AMD MI250X GPU has 2 GCDs for the total of 8 GCDs per node) 

Please see: https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/server-accelerators-benchmarks 


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titleSetonix-GPU migration pathway

The Setonix’s AMD MI250X GPUs have a very specific migration pathway related to CUDA to HIP and OpenACC to OpenMP conversions. Pawsey is working closely with research groups within PaCER project (https://pawsey.org.au/pacer/) and with vendors to further extend the list of supported codes. 

Please see: https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/infinity-hub  


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  • The ability of the project to generate impactful outcomes and produce innovative economic, environmental and social benefits to Australia and the international community

Data Storage and Management 

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Each project will be allocated project storage of 1TB by default on Pawsey’s object storage system Acacia. Project storage allocations are limited to the duration of compute allocation. In line with Pawsey's Data Storage and Management Policy, data will normally only be held by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre for the duration of the research project. In addition, researchers can apply for managed storage allocations, separately from NCMAS. Managed storage access is intended for storing larger data collections with demonstrable research value according to a curated lifecycle plan.

Application Form and Process

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